ONCE UPON A TIME.

Nadime Gordimer:

She is one of several South African Nobel Laureates. She has gotten the prize of literature in 1991. It was because her stories described the conditions of race segregation in South Africa very well. Her books were often banned. But she continued to write and her first short story were published when she was fifteen and the last in 2007.

The plot in Once Upon a Time:

It is about a white family that have moved to South Africa and now lives in a nice house in a nice street. But they began to be afraid of robbers and burglars, so they bought a big wall and an electronic gate to keep them out. They had a son who was not old. He was a little boy. After a while they got more afraid and set up a barbed wire on top of the wall and inside the tunnel. One day the little boy wanted to play, and he played a knight that had to go through the thorns and he climbed into the tunnel. I will think that he died.

Why is apartheid one of the themes in the story:

Because the author is from South Africa and she wanted to write about apartheid and her childhood maybe.

Elements of fairytales:

It is three people in the story. The name of the story is once upon a time. It is mentioned that they live happily ever after very many times.

Why is this a reverse fairytale:

Because the ending is not a happy one and it is very much from the real life. Most of it is not fiction.

GOFFEN HAS GOT THE REST.